| Pronunciation: | | row'buschus
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WordNet Dictionary |
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[adj] noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline; "a boisterous crowd"; "a social gathering that became rambunctious and out of hand"; "a robustious group of teenagers"; "beneath the rumbustious surface of his paintings is sympathy for the vulnerability of ordinary human beings"; "an unruly class" |
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ROBUSTIOUS is a 10 letter word that starts with R. |
| | Synonyms: | | boisterous, disorderly, rambunctious, rumbustious, unruly |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Ro*bus"tious\, a. [Cf. L. robusteus of oak.]
Robust. [Obs. or Humorous] --W. Irving.
In Scotland they had handled the bishops in a more
robustious manner. --Milton.
-- {Ro*bus"tious*ly}, adv. -- {Ro*bus"tious*ness}, n.
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